Provided by: eventstat_0.03.01-1_amd64 bug


       eventstat - a tool to measure system events.


       eventstat [options] [delay [count]]


       eventstat is a program that dumps the current active system events.


       eventstat options are as follow:

       -b     just  report  events, PID and process name. By default the short task name from the
              kernel comm field will be displayed, however the -s and -l options will report more
              process name information.

       -c     report cumulative events rather than events per sample period.

       -C     report  the sample event count in the CSV output rather than the default events per
              second rate.

       -d     strip full directory path off the process name in the CSV output.

       -h     show help

       -k     report just kernel threads.

       -l     report long process name from /proc/pid/cmdline. This reports the process name  and
              all the command line arguments.

       -n event_count
              only display the first event_count number of top events.

       -q     run quietly, only really makes sense with -r option.

       -r csv_file
              and graphed using your favourite open source spread sheet.

       -s     report short process name from /proc/pid/cmdline. This  reports  just  the  process

       -S     report  the  minimum, maximum, average and population standard deviation at the end
              of the CSV output.

       -t threshold

       -T     enable 'top' mode, refresh display on each update.

       -u     report just user space processes.

       -w     add timestamp (the "whence" info) to the output.


       Dump events every second until stopped.
               sudo eventstat

       Dump the top 20 events every 60 seconds until stopped.
               sudo eventstat -n 20 60

       Dump events every 10 seconds just 5 times.
               sudo eventstat 10 5

               sudo eventstat 10 5 -q -s -r results.csv


       The -r option  generates  a  comma  separated  file  report  that  can  be  imported  into
       spreadsheets or parsed using text processing tools.  Column 1 of the data is the label for
       each row, columns 2 onwards contain the data for each task that generated a wakeup event.

       The first row lists the task name of the thread or process. Task names in [ ] brackets are
       kernel threads, other tasks are the names of user space processes.  By default these names
       are derived from the task names from /proc/timer_stats but the -s -l  options  fetch  more
       complete task names from /proc/pid/cmdline instead.

       The  second  and  third  rows  list  the names of the internal Linux kernel timer init and
       callback functions, respectively.

       The fourth row lists the total number of wakeup events for each task during the entire run
       of eventstat.

       The  subsequent  rows  list  the  average number of wakeups per second measured during the
       sample interval for each task in column two onwards. The first column indicates the sample
       time (in seconds) since the start of the measuring.


       powertop(8), top(1)


       eventstat was written by Colin King <>

       This  manual  page  was  written  by Colin King <>, for the Ubuntu
       project (but may be used by others).


       Copyright © 2011-2016 Canonical Ltd.

                                        February 11, 2016                            EVENTSTAT(8)